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Language
  
English

Name
  
Dennis Haskell

Nationality
  
Australian

Role
  
Poet

Citizenship
  
Australian

Education
  
University of Sydney

Alma mater
  

Dennis Haskell wwwwesterlycentreuwaeduaudataassetsimage

Occupation
  
Emeritus Professor/Senior Honorary Research Fellow

Notable awards
  
ASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature): A.A. Phillips Award, 2011

Books
  
Acts of Defiance: New and, Attuned to Alien Moonlight, All the Time in the World, A Touch of Ginger: Poems, Australian Poetic Satire

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Dennis haskell


Dennis Haskell (born 1948) is an Australian poet, critic and academic.

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Life and work

Haskell was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and studied for a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of NSW before completing a PhD in Literature at the University of Sydney.

Haskell began teaching English in 1973 in Sydney before moving to Perth in 1984. He is currently an Emeritus Professor/Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. His keys areas of research are: 1) Australian Literature, especially Twentieth Century and Contemporary Australian Literature; 2) Poetry from the Medieval period to the present; 3) Creative Writing; 4) South-east Asian Writing in English; 5) Literary Modernism (1890-1939); 6) Modernism and after; and 7) Post-colonial.

Haskell co-edited the literary magazine Westerly from 1985 to 2009. He is now the director of the Westerly Centre at the University of Western Australia. He was chair of the Australia Council's Literature Board from 2009 to 2011.

Apart from writing his own poetry, Haskell has produced a number of critical studies of the works of Australian poets such as Bruce Dawe and Kenneth Slessor.

In 2011 Haskell was awarded the ASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature): A.A. Phillips Award for his 'long period of excellence in the editing of Westerly'.

Awards

  • 2003 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Gleebooks Prize for Literary or Cultural Criticism for Attuned to Alien Moonlight: The Poetry of Bruce Dawe
  • 2006 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Poetry for All the Time in the World
  • References

    Dennis Haskell Wikipedia


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